Re: Policy on supporting 3rd party DB abstraction layers?

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:37:02 +0200, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > Lukas Feiler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> XML_Query2XML just got a feature request >> (http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=8861) to support AdoDB >> (http://adodb.sourceforge.net). >> Is there any policy/RFC out there that states whether or not 3rd party >> database abstraction layers should/shall be supported? >> I'm just asking because no other package seems to support AdoDB at the >> moment. >> >> XML_Query2XML currently supports DB and MDB2; to add support for AdoDB would >> be quite easy to implement. > > There is no policy against it. For example there is support for Smarty > in a few packages. Also someone once proposed but never completed > support for AdoDB in LiveUser. Think I saw ADODB support sometime ago in some package but not you can't place it as a dep in the package file, at least that was the rule last time I checked (i.e. no none pear channel deps and such) but like Lukas said there's nothing against having it as a driver, just requires the end developer to be 100% sure him/her self that adodb is in place. - Helgi